QUICK! WHY DO THEY LOVE LUCY?

October 13, 1952

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were on the cover of Quick Magazine (volume 7 #13) on October 13, 1952.  The inside article was titled “Why Do They Love Lucy?” 

Quick Magazine was published by Cowles Magazines, Inc., from 1949 to 1953. They also published Life. Readers were encouraged to “Get Quick on your newsstand an carry it in your pocket or your purse… and read it wherever you are”. A new Quick Magazine was first published in November 2010. 

Photograph from “The Audition” (ILL S1;E6) filmed October 15, 1951. 

Photographs from “The Freezer” (ILL S1;E29) filmed March 29, 1952 and “The Mustache” (ILL S1;E23) filmed February 8, 1952. 

 A candid photograph of Lucille Ball at home with her daughter, Lucie. 

Lucille Ball worked with Buster Keaton on the 1946 film Easy To Wed. She reunited with him in the 1965 “Salute To Stan Laurel”.  

This magazine was published three days after the filming of “Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable” (ILL S2;E11)…

and on the same day as the first airing of “The Operetta” (ILL S2;E5).  

Lucille Ball had previously appeared on the cover on November 27, 1950. Ball was still doing her radio show, “My Favorite Husband.” 

She appeared again on April 13, 1953, with newborn Desi Jr.